Gormo

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by Gormo 2y ago
You can also use the original shareware version.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Looks and sounds great, and works at resolutions greater than 320x200! The game content consists of raster tiles and sprites, so I've just set to to 640x400, which works great on my 1920x1200 display. Although that website contains wh
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by Gormo 2y ago
So about the same rate as those New Year's celebrations we're constantly having.
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by Gormo 2y ago
I have zero issues with multiple monitors, with mixed DPIs and refresh rates, and different scaling factors on each display, using XFCE under Xorg.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> x11 failed in other areas, and earlier. Still works great for me!
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by Gormo 2y ago
Good UI design is appealing in any type of software.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> It’s when it comes to maintenance or troubleshooting that things become tedious. I'd rather have troubleshooting be tedious than have troubleshooting be impossible because I don't have direct control of the device.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> I'm within the 99.9999% of Americans who have nothing to hide Let's not encourage the "nothing to hide" arguments here -- the reality is that almost everyone has plenty to hide.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Maybe this depends on the person, but I find a device with some buttons to configure it infinitely easier and less frustrating than an app. People's subjective experience may vary, but relying on an app objectively entails more
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by Gormo 2y ago
I think it just means that since he's building this from pre-existing off-the-shelf parts, he has no control over any IP associated with the components he bought. Which seems fairly obvious and uncontroversial.
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by Gormo 2y ago
Is there some alternative, though? Using an LLM might speed up writing code, but obviously can't speed up reading and interpreting it.
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by Gormo 2y ago
I thought I'd just point out that KeePassDX can itself do 2FA (as can KeePassXC on the desktop, so you can keep your TOTP keys synced too).
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by Gormo 2y ago
People generally don't like having their immediate needs exploited by those seeking to proselytize an ideology. I'm not sure that's an "issue" that needs to be "worked on". If you're being altruisti
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by Gormo 2y ago
But the meaning you're presumably referencing isn't applicable to this conversation.
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by Gormo 2y ago
> America has a vested interest in snooping on and having direct control over popular mediums of communication. So this is the sort of statement that needs to be whacked a couple of times with a rolled-up newspaper. The US government doe
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by Gormo 2y ago
Not really ironic, though. There are aligned interests and effective incentive structures involved in all of your examples. And your examples pertain to very narrowly-focused, objectively measurable outcomes. Education is massively dif
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Because you choose to focus on cases where you do have agency to do something, e.g. its my discord and I am moving us to matrix - and goodbye to those who will not migrate. I guess I'm not sure of what scenario wouldn't ali
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, "pooping on the floor" is the US government is doing to the US , regardless of whether its ultimate aim is to punish China. I am not willing to give the US government discretionary authority over what software I have access
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by Gormo 2y ago
> Have you ever tried to move an existing community e.g., from Whatsapp to Signal or can you do anything if an entire country has chosen to reside on Facebook? What does an "entire country" have to do with it? People move onli
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by Gormo 2y ago
He wouldn't have had to resort to complex modes of influence, that's for sure. It's very scary that we've gotten to the point where people are claiming to "protect democracy" by proposing to allow institutions
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by Gormo 2y ago
The constitution applies to the government. It establishes the government and defines -- and therefor limits -- what the government is allowed to do. Corporations are considered "legal persons" for the purpose of applying the law
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by Gormo 2y ago
What if you use a solution like the one described in the article, and physically swap the SIM card to another device?
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by Gormo 2y ago
Alternatively, use a global eSIM purely for data access, then use your phone as a SIP client (or use something like Google Voice) for PSTN access, eschewing the mobile network entirely.
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by Gormo 2y ago
The trendy uses are "algorithim" and "crypto" are specific cases of the general meanings of these terms -- there's no contradiction or ambiguity introduced here, so these uses are OK, although people presuming the n
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by Gormo 2y ago
OTOH, technical fields develop jargon specifically as a solution to the problems created by semantic drift in vernacular vocabulary. Sure, languages evolve, but that doesn't mean "anything goes" -- to the contrary, novel muta
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by Gormo 2y ago
The Communications Act of 1934 applies primarily to broadcast media, and many of the restrictions that it put in place were specifically justified by the inherent scarcity of broadcast spectrum, where the rationale that one party can domina
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by Gormo 2y ago
You're talking about intent, but I'm not sure I understand the relevance of intentions here. We're evaluating behavior, which remains the same irrespective of what intentions motivated it. I think it goes without saying tha
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by Gormo 2y ago
The role of the US government isn't do things it believes are beneficial for itself. It's to administer the law consistently with the constitution. When it behaves in arbitrary way and implicates the rights of its own people in
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by Gormo 2y ago
> 36% of the voting population did not vote If those people are eligible to vote but choose not to, than that is their vote. It's not appropriate to second-guess people who abstain any more than it is to second-guess the ballots
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by Gormo 2y ago
No, it very much isn't. Reality is reality, and people's perceptions of it are often quite incorrect.

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